Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I am amazed at the patience of my blessed Master and Teacher, but how I love His school!
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
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Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
